Amir Averbuch Curriculum Vitae Personal: Work address: Tel e-mail: Founder InfoWrap, Inc 20 Lincoln st, Rubinstein Bldg., 15th floor Tel Aviv +972-3-6254666 amir@info-wrap.com InfoWrap Inc. Tel/Fax: School of Computer Sciences Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel +972-3-6422020 e-mail: URL: amir@math.tau.ac.il http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~amir Home address: Tel home: Cell: Fax home: Military service: 6 Hazedef Street, Jaffa 68034, Israel +972-3-6810627 055-694455 +972-3-6817691 1967-1971, 1973-1975 Currently Founder and CTO of InfoWrap, Inc. Prof. of Computer Science, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University. Overview: Over 25 years of experience in research and development in industry and academia: In academia – Research in the following areas: Parallel and distributed processing and supercomputing - software and algorithms. Fast algorithms for computational problems in material sciences, physics. Solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) for physical problems in complicated geometries. Numerical solutions of PDEs and integral equations. Wavelets and multiresolution analysis for signal/image processing and efficient numerical computation. Image processing: still and video compression, segmentation, change detection, denoising, ehnacement, sharpening, super resolution, levelsets methods for image processing, polar FFT, Radon transform, adaptive transmission over narrow band networks. Signal processing: speech compression, acoustics signatures using wavelets. In indstry 11 years Research Staff Member, IBM Corp., T.J. Watson Research center, Yorktown Heights, New York. Working in the Computer Science Department in the following areas: speech recognition, discrete signal processing, image processing, operating system design, supercomputing and parallel processing. 1 Consulting to many hi-tech companines in Israel and the USA. Education: 1965-1968 B.Sc in Mathematics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 1972-1975 M.Sc in Mathematics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Supervisor: Prof. H. Furstenberg. 1977-1978 M.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science, Columbia University, New York. 1979-1983 Ph.D in Mathematics and Computer Science, Columbia University, New York. Supervisor: Dr. S. Winograd. 1977-1986 Academic and technical courses, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Academic and Professionl Experience: 20001977-1983 1977-1986 19871987-1989 1987-1990 1990 199019901996 1996 1999 Founder and CTO of InfoWrap. Fellow of the Faculty, Mathematics and Statistics department, Columbia University, New York. Research Staff Member, IBM Corp. Thomas T.J. Watson Research Center, Computer Science Department. Visiting professor Yale University, Mathematics and Computer Science departments. Assistant professor, Computer Science department, Tel Aviv University. Consultant, IBM Scientific Center, Haifa. Gordon Bell Prize. Invited talks in various conferences (over 90 papers in conferences). Professor with tenure, Computer Science department, Tel Aviv University. Visiting Institute of Mathematical Analysis (IMA). Visiting professor in Centre Emile Borel, Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, for the program “Mathematical questions in Signal and Image Processing”. Visiting professor in Stanford University. Research grants Total of $1,800,000 in 1988-2002 Research Students and Post-Docs Master students supervised Current master students Doctoral students supervised Current doctoral students Post-docs supervised Current post-docs 50 20 7 7 9 2 2 List of Publications Articles in refereed journals 1. 1. Averbuch, S. Winograd, Z. Galil, Classification of all the minimal bilinear algorithms for computing the coefficients of the product of two polynomials modulo a polynomial, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 226, Springer-Verlag, pp. 31-39, 1986. 2. Averbuch, Z. Galil, S. Winograd, Classification of all the minimal bilinear algorithms for computing the coefficients of the product of two polynomials modulo a polynomial, Part I, Theoretical Computer Science, vol 58, no 1-3, pp. 17-56, July 1988. 3. A. Averbuch, Z. Galil, S. Winograd, Classification of all the minimal bilinear algorithms for computing the coefficients of the product of two polynomials modulo a polynomial, Part II, Theoretical Computer Science, vol 86, pp. 143-203, 1991. 4. A. Averbuch, E. Gabber, B. Gordissky, Y. Medan, Parallel FFT on an MIMD machine, Parallel Computing, Vol. 15, pp. 61-74, 1990. 5. A. Averbuch, I. Gohberg, I. Koltracht, B. Shoham, Timing Analysis of a Parallel Algorithm for Toeplitz Matrices on a MIMD Parallel machine, Parallel Computing, Vol. 17, pp. 563-577, 1991. 6. A. Averbuch, S. Itzikowitz, T. Kapon, Parallel Implementation of Multiple Model Tracking Algorithms, IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 242-252, April 1991. 7. A. Averbuch, S. Itzikowitz, T. Kapon, Radar Target Tracking - Viterbi vs. IMM, IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 550-563, May 1991. 8. D. Amitai, A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, S. Itzikowitz, Parallel Adaptive and Time-Stabilizing Schemes for Constant-Coefficients Parabolic PDEs, Computers & Mathematics with applications, Vol. 24, No. 10, pp. 33-53, 1992. 9. A. Averbuch, N. Bshouty, M. Kaminsky, A classification of bilinear algorithms for multiplying polynomials of small degree over finite fields, J. Algorithms, 13, pp. 577588, 1992. 10. D. Amitai, A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, S. Itzikowitz, E. Turkel, A Survey of Asynchronous Finite-Difference Methods for Parabolic PDEs on Multiprocessors, Applied Numerical Methods, Vol 12, pp. 27-45, May 1993. 11. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Domain Decomposition Methods for Solving Parabolic PDEs on Multiprocessors, Applied Numerical Methods, pp. 193-212, May 1993. 12. A. Averbuch, G. Aharoni, R. Coifman,M. Israeli, Local cosine transform - A method for the reduction of the Blocking Effect in JPEG, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, Special Issue on Wavelets, Vol. 3, pp. 7-38, 1993. 13. A. Averbuch, E. Gabber, A. Yehudai, A Portable Parallelizing Pascal Compiler, IEEE Software, pp. 71-81, March 1993. 14. S. Itzikowitz, A. Averbuch, General Smoothing Techniques for Estimating Deterministic Sinusoidals Frequencies from Noisy Data, IEEE Trans. on ASSP., Vol. 41, N0. 4, pp. 1698-1702, April 1993. 15. M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, A. Averbuch, Spectral Multidomain Technique with Local Fourier Basis, Journal of Scientific Computing, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 135-149, June 1993. 16. M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, A. Averbuch, Parallelizing Implicit Algorithms for Evolution Equations by Parabolic Domain Decomposition, Journal of Scientific Computing, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 151-166, June 1993. 17. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Domain Decomposition methods with local Fourier basis for parabolic problems, The Contemporary Mathematics volume on Domain Decomposition edited by Quarteroni et al., Vol. 157, pp.223-230, 1994. 18. D. Amitai, A. Averbuch, S. Itzikowitz, E. Turkel, Asynchronous and CorrectedAsynchronous Numerical Solutions of Parabolic PDEs on Parallel MIMD Multiprocessors, Numerical Algorithms, Vol. 6, No. III-IV, pp. 275-296, 1994. 19. A. Averbuch, D. Amitai, R. Friedman, E. Gabber, Portable Parallel Implementation of BLAS 3, Concurrency Practice and Experience, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 411-459, 1994. 3 20. A. Avrebuch, E. Gabber, S. Itzikowitz, B. Shoham, On Parallel and Elliptic Single/Multi-Grid Solutions about Aligned and Nonaligned Bodies using VMMP, Scientific Programming, Vol. 3, pp. 13-32, 1994. 21. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Spectral Multidomain Technique with Local Fourier Basis II: Decomposition into Cells, Journal of Scientific Computing, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 311-326, 1994. 22. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Multidomain Fourier algorithms for parallel solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations, The Contemporary Mathematics volume on Domain Decomposition Methods in Scientific and Engineering Computing, edited by D. Keyes and J. Xu, Vol. 180, pp.539-546, AMS 1994. 23. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Parallel Implementation of Non-Linear Evolution Problems using Parabolic Domain Decomposition, Parallel Computing, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp. 1151-1183, 1995. 24. A. Averbuch, D. Lazar, M. Israeli, Image Compression using Wavelet Decomposition, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 4-15, January 1996. 25. A. Averbuch, R. Dekel, E. Gabber, Portable Parallelizing Fortran Compiler, Concurrency Practice and Experience, Vol. 8(2), pp. 91-123, March 1996. 26. D. Amitai, A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, S. Itzikowitz, On Parallel Asynchronous High-Order Solutions of Parabolic PDEs, Numerical Algorithms, Vol. 12, pp. 159-192, 1996. 27. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, Vozovoi L., Multidomain Local Fourier Method for PDEs in Complex Geometries, J. Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 66, pp. 543555, 1996. 28. A. Averbuch, L. Vozovoi, M. Israeli, Analysis and Application of Fourier-Gegenbauer Method to Stiff Differential Equations, SIAM J. Numerical Analysis, Vol. 33, No. 5, pp. 1844-1863, October 1996. 29. A. Pikaz, A. Averbuch,Digital Image Thresholding Based on Topological Stable-State, Pattern Recognition, 29:5 (1996),829-843. 30. A. Pikaz, A. Averbuch, On Automatic Threshold Selection for Polygonal Approximations of Digital Curves, Pattern Recognition, 29:11 (1996), 1835-1845. 31. A. Averbuch, A. Pikaz, An Efficient Topological Characterization of Gray-levels Textures using a Multiresolution Representation, Graphical Models and Image Processing, Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 1-17, 1997. 32. A. Averbuch, L. Ioffe, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Highly Scalable two- and ThreeDimensional Navier-Stokes Parallel Solvers on MIMD Multiprocessors, J. of Supercomputing, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 7-39, 1997. 33. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, On a Fast Direct Elliptic Solver by a Modified Fourier Method, Numerical Algorithms, Vol. 15 (3,4) pp. 287-313, 1997. 34. A. Averbuch, L. Ioffe, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, A Parallel Spectral Fourier - Nonlinear Galerkin Algorithm for Simulation of Turbulence, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, pp.699-715, 1997. 35. A. Averbuch, E. Gabber, A Portable Scalable Implementation of a Parallel FFT on MIMD Multiprocessors, Concurrency Practice and Experience, vol. 10(8), pp. 583605, 1998. 36. A. Averbuch, J. Bar-Shalom, J. Dayan, A. Mazor, Interacting Multiple Models Methods in Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Survey, IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vo. 34, No. 1, pp. 103-123, Jan. 1998. 37. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, A Fast Poisson Solver of Arbitrary Order Accuracy in Rectangular Regions, SIAM J. of Scientific Computing, Vol. 19 (3), pp. 933-952, May 1998. 38. D. Amitai, A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, S. Itzikowitz, Mixed Implicit Asynchronous-Explicit Parallel Solutions of Parabolic PDEs, SIAM J. of Scientific Computing, Volume 19, Number 4, pp. 1366-1404, July 1998. 39. A. Averbuch, A. Cohen, Efficient Multicast Design in a Microkernel Environment, Concurrency Practice and Experience, vol. 10(7), pp. 497-548, 1998. 40. A. Averbuch, A. Pikaz, On the Relation Between Second-Order Statistics, Connectivity Analysis and Percolation Models in Digital Textures, CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 226-232, May 1998 41. A. Averbuch, L. Braverman, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, A Fast 3-D Poisson Solver of Arbitrary Order Accuracy, J. of Computational Physics, 144, pp. 109-136, 1998. 4 42. A. Averbuch, L. Ioffe, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, 2-D Parallel Solver for the Solution of Navier-Stokes Equations with Constant and Variable Coefficients using ADI on Cells, Parallel Computing, 24, pp. 673-699, 1998. 43. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Solution of Time Dependent Diffusion Equations with Variable Coefficients using Multiwavelets, J. Computational Physics, Vol. 150, pp. 394-424, 1999. 44. A|. Averbuch, Y. Roditty, B. Shoham, Scheduling Tasks of Multi-Join Queries in a Multiprocessor, Concurrency: Practice and Experience, Vol. 11 (5), pp. 247-279, 1999. 45. . Averbuch, L. Braverman, M. Israeli, A Fast Spectral Solver for 3-D Helmholtz Equation, SIAM J. Scientific Computing, vol. 20 (6), pp. 2237-2260, 1999. 46. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, F. Meyer, Speed vs. Quality in Low Bit-Rate Still Image Compression, Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 15, pp. 231-254, 1999. 47. A. Averbuch, B. Epstein, L. Ioffe,I. Yavneh, Efficient Parallelization of a ThreeDimensional Navier-Stokes Solver on MIMD Multiprocessors, J. of Supercomputing, 17, (2000), 123-142. 48. A. Averbuch, L. Braverman, R. Coifman, M. Israeli, A. Sidi, Efficient computation of Oscillatory Integrals via Adaptive Multiscale Local Fourier Bases, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, 9:1, (2000), 19-53. 49. A.Averbuch, Y. Roditty and B. Shoham, Performance Analysis of Hybrid Network Multiprocessor Architecture, Concurrency: Practice and Experience, 12, (2000), 821844. 50. M. Nathan, E. Glickman, M. Khenner, A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, Electromigration drift velocity in Cu interconnects modeled with the Level Set method, Applied Physics Letters, 77:21, (2000), 3355-3357. 51. A. Averbuch, L. Braverman, M. Israeli, Parallel Adaptive Solution of a Poisson equation with Multiwavelets, SIAM J. of Scientific Computing, 22:3 (2000), 10531086. 52. A. Averbuch, E. Hulata, V. Zheludev, I. Kozlov, A wavelet packet algorithm for classification and detection of moving vehicles, Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, 12:1 (2001), 9-31. 53. M. Khenner, A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, M. Nathan, E. Glickman, Level Set Modeling of Transient Electromigration Grooving, Computational Materials Science, 20:2 (2001), 235-250. 54. A.Averbuch, Y. Roditty and B. Shoham, Computation of Broadcasting Multiple Messages in a Positive Weighted Tree, J. of Combintorial Mathematics and Combintorial Computing, 35 (2000), 161-184. 55. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, I. Ravve, I. Yavneh, Computation for Electromigration in Interconnects of Microelectronic Devices, J. of Computational Physics, 167 (2001), 316-371. 56. A. Averbuch, B. Epstein, I. Yavneh, An Accurate ENO Driven Multigrid Method Applied to 3-D Turbulent Transonic Flows, J. of Computational Physics, 168 (2001), 316-338. 57. D. Lazar, A. Averbuch, Wavelet Based Video Coder via Bit Allocation, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and System for Video Technology, Vol. 11, No. 7, (2001), 815-832. 58. A. Averbuch, M. Khenner, M. Israeli, M. Nathan, Numerical Simulation of Grain Boundary Grooving By Level Set Method, J. of Computational Physics, Vol. 170 (2001), 764-784. 59. A. Averbuch, L. Braverman, M. Israeli, R. Coifman, On efficient computation of multidimensional oscillatory integrals with local Fourier bases, Journal of Nonlinear Analysis, 47 (2001), 3491-3502. 60. A. Averbuch, A. B. Pevnyi, V. Zheludev, Butterworth wavelet transforms derived from discrete interpolatory splines: Recursive implementation, Signal Processing, 81 (2001), 2363-2382. 61. A. Averbuch, Y. Roditty, B. Shoham, Efficient line broadcasting in a d-dimensional grid, Discrete Applied Mathematics, 113 (2001), 129-141. 62. A. Averbuch, A. B. Pevnyi, V. Zheludev, Biorthogonal butterworth wavelets derived from discrete interpolatory splines, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 49, no. 11 (2001), 2682-2692. 5 63. A. Averbuch, I. Gaber, Y. Roditty, Low-cost minimum-time line broadcasting schemes in complete binary trees, Networks, 38 (2001), 189-193. 64. A. Averbuch, F. Meyer, J-O. Stromberg, R.Coifman, A. Vassiliou, Low Bit-Rate Efficient Compression for Seismic Data, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 10, no. 12 (2001), 1801-1814. 65. A. Averbuch, V. Zheludev, Construction of biorthogonal discrete wavelet transforms using interpolatory splines, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, vol. 12 (2002), 25-56. 66. M. Israeli, E. Braverman, A. Averbuch, A hierarchical 3-D Poisson modified Fourier solver by domain decomposition,Journal of Scientific Computing, Vol. 17, Numbers 1-3 (2002), pp. 509-518. 67. A. Averbuch, V. Zheludev, Lifting scheme for biorthogonal multiwavelets originated from Hermite splines, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 50, no. 3 (2002), 487500. 68. Y. Tsaig, A. Averbuch, Automatic Segmentation of Moving Objects in Video Sequences: 69. A Region Labeling Approach, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 12, No. 7, pp. 597-612, 2002. 70. A. Averbuch, Y. Roditty, B. Shoham, Construction of minimum time-relaxed broadcasting in communication networks, J. of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing. 71. A. Averbuch, R. Coifman, D. Donoho, M. Israeli, J. Walden, Fast Slant Stack: A notion of Radon Transform for Data in a Cartesian Grid which is Rapidly Computable, Algebraically Exact, Geometrically Faithful and Invertible, SIAM J. of Scientific Computing. 72. A. Averbuch, E. Braverman, R. Coifman, M. Israeli, Fast Evaluation of 2-D and 3-D Oscillatory Integrals with Local Fourier Bases, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol.3, 2002. 73. F. Meyer, A. Averbuch, R. Coifman, Multi-layered Image Representation: Application to Image Compression, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. 74. A. Averbuch, Y. Keller, Fast motion estimation using bidirectional gradient methdos, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. 75. A. Averbuch, Y. Keller, Fast gradient methods based global motion estimation for video compression, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 76. A. Averbuch, R. Coifman, D. Donoho, M. Israeli, J. Walden, The pseudopolar FFT and its Applications, SIAM J. of Scientific Computing. 77. A. Averbuch, G. Beylkin, R. Coifman, P. Fischer, M. Israeli, Adaptive Solution of Multidimensional PDEs via Tensor Product Wavelet Decomposition, Applied Computational Harmonic Analysis. 78. A. Averbuch, I. Gaber, Y. Roditty, Computation of minimum-time line gossiping in trees, J. of Combin. Math. Combin. Computation. 79. A. Averbuch, I. Gaber, Y. Roditty, Efficient broadcasting from several originators in a d-dimensional grid, Applied Discrete Math. 80. A. Averbuch, E. Hulata, V. Zheludev, I. Kozlov, Identification of acoustic signatures for vehicles via reduction of dimensionality, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. 81. A. Averbuch, A. Magner, A scalable delay speech coder at 8 kbps using local cosine transform IV, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing. 82. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, I. Ravve, Electromigration of Intergrannular Voids in Microelectronic Interconnects, J. Computational of Physics. 83. A. Averbuch, E. Barverman, B. Epstein, M. Israeli, A Fast Spectral Solver for Elliptic Equations, SIAM Scientific Computing. 84. A. Averbuch, Y. Keller, A unifed approach to FFT based image registration, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. 85. A. Averbuch, G. Liron, B. Bobrovsky, Scene based non-uniformity correction in thermal images using Kalman filter, International Journal of Computer Vision. 86. A. Averbuch, D. Donoho, A. Schclar, Deblocking of Block-Transform Compressed Images Using Weighted Sums of Symmetrically Aligned Pixels, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 87. A. Averbuch, V. Zheludev, A library of spline based biorthogonal wavelet transforms for image compression, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. 6 88. A. Averbuch, Y. Shkolinsky, 2D Fourier Based Discrete Radon Transform, Fourier Analysis and its applications. 89. A. Averbuch, Y. Shkolinsky, 3D Fourier Based Discrete Radon Transform, Applied Computational Harmonic Analysis. 90. A. Averbuch, O. Miller, A. Pikaz, Illumination Independent Change Detection in a Pair of Gray Images Based on Connectivity Analysis Along Gray-Levels, Machine Vision and Applications. 91. A. Averbuch, L. Beliak, M. Israeli, Adaptive Calculation of Variable Coefficients Elliptic Differential Equations via Wavelets, SIAM Scientific Computing. 92. A. Averbuch, Y. Keller, Image registration using implicit similarity and pixel migration, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 93. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, M. Nathan, I. Ravve, Surface Evolution in Bare Bamboo Microelectronic Interconnects Under Diffusion and Electric Field Effects, J. of Computational Physics. 94. A. Averbuch, Y. Shkolnisky, 3D Discrete X-Ray Transform, SIAM Scientific Computing. 95. A. Averbuch, Y. Keller, Pseudo-polar based estimation of large translations, rotations and scalings in images, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. 96. A. Averbuch, B. Epstein, N. Fishelov, E. Turkel, Edge enhancement using artificial dissipation, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision. 97. Y. Keller, A. Averbuch, R. Kimmerl, M. Israeli, Fast motion estimation using second order gradient methods, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. 98. A. Averbuch, L. Kosachevski, Y. Roditty, Construction of Minimum Broadcast Hypergraphs. 99. A. Averbuch, L. Kosachevski, Y. Roditty, Construction of Minimum m-Time-Relaxed Broadcasting. Chapters in books 1. Averbuch, A., M. Israeli, Vozovoi L., Application of the Multidomain Local Fourier method for CFD in complex geometries, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Roesner's Anniversary Volume, pp. 245-256, Springer, 1994. 2. A. Averbuch, L. Ioffe, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Multidimensional Parallel Spectral Solver for Navier-Stokes Equations, in “Parallel Solution of Partial Differential Equations” edited by Petter Bjorstad and Mitchell Luskin, IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 120, 123-158 (Springer-Verlag). 3. A. Averbuch, V. Zheludev, Interpolatory biorthogonal multiwavelet transforms based on Hermite splines, Trends in Approximation Theory Kirill Kopotun, Tom Lyche, and Marian Neamtu (eds.), Vanderbilt Univ. Press, Nashville, TN, 2001. 4. A. Averbuch, V. Zheludev, Image compression using spline based wavelet transforms, Wavelets in Signal and Image Processing: From Theory to Practice, F. Meyer and A. Petrosian - Editors, Book in Computational Imaging and Vision, Vol. 19, pp. 341-376, Kluwer Academic Press,2001. 5. F. Meyer, A. Averbuch, R. Coifman, Multi-layered Image Representation: Application to Image Compression, Wavelets in Signal and Image Processing: From Theory to Practice, F. Meyer and A. Petrosian - Editors, Book in Computational Imaging and Vision, Vol. 19, pp. 281-304, Kluwer Academic Press, 2001. 6. A.G. Flesia, H. Hel-Or, A. Averbuch, E.J. Candes, R. Coifman, D. Donoho, Digital Implementation of Ridgelet Packets, Beyond Wavelets, J. Stockler and G. Welland (Eds.), Academic Press, 2002. 7. A. Averbuch, Polar representations: Can it open new directions in wavelet based imgage processing Invited to "Beyond Wavelets", J. Stoeckler and G.V. Welland (eds.), Academic Press. Articles in refereed conferences 1. A. Averbuch, All irreducible unitary representations of soluble lie groups, Conference of Functional Analysis, Jerusalem 1977. 7 2. A. Averbuch, G. Daggett, G. Shichman, The HERMES-2 Signal Processor-The Yorktown Software Support, IBM Yorktown Heights, RC 10145, 1983. 3. A. Averbuch et al., A real-time, isolated-word, speech recognition system for dictation transcription, ICASSP, Florida 1985. 4. A. Averbuch et al., An IBM PC based large-vocabulary isolated-utterance speech recognizer, ICASSP, Tokyo 1986, pp. 53-56. 5. A.Averbuch, Z. Galil, S. Winograd, Classification of all the minimal bilinear algorithms for computing the coefficients of the product of two polynomials modulo a polynomial, ICALP'86, France, 1986. 6. A. Averbuch et al., Experiments with the Tangora 20,000 Word Speech Recognizer, ICASSP-87. 7. A. Averbuch, E. Gabber, Multiprocessors -Classification and Software tools, IEEE, pp. 1-8, Sect. 1.5.1 Israel 1989. 8. A. Averbuch, E. Gabber, B. Gordissky, Y. Medan, Parallel FFT on an MIMD machine, 1989 International Conference on Parallel Processing, pp. III-63 - III-70, August 8-12, 1989, USA. 9. D. Zifrony, A. Averbuch, Pdeb-A Parallel Debugger, Parallel Computing, D.J. Evans et. al. (editors), pp. 481-486, North-Holland, Leiden, Holland 1989. 10. D. Amitai, A. Averbuch, S. Itzikowits, E. Turkel, Asynchronous, Numerical Solutions of PDEs on Parallel Computers, Fourth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, pp. 131-136, Dec 11-13,1989, Chicago, USA. 11. D. Amitai, A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, S. Itzikowitz, Parallel Adaptive and Time-Stabilizing Schemes for Constant-Coefficients Parabolic PDEs, Fifth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, March 25-27,1991, Houston, USA. 12. D. Amitai, A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, S. Itzikowitz, General Parallel Finite-Difference Schemes for Constant-Coefficients Parabolic PDEs, SIAM ICIAM91 (Int. Conf. on Indus. and App. Math.), July 8-12, 1991, Washington, USA. 13. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, R. Temam, L. Vozvoi, Implementation of the Nonlinear Galerkin Method on Parallel Computer, SIAM ICIAM91 (Int. Conf. on Indus. and App. Math.), July 8-12, 1991, Washington, USA. 14. S. Itzikowitz, A. Averbuch, General Smoothing Techniques for Estimating Deterministic Sinusoidals Frequencies from Noisy Data, ICASSP-90, Vol 5., pp. 25832586, New Mexico, USA, 1990. 15. D. Alpert, A. Averbuch, O. Danieli, Performance Comparison of Load/Store and Symmetric Instruction Set Architectures, 17th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, pp. 172-181, May 28-31,1990,Seattle, Washington, USA. 16. T. Kapon, S. Itzikowitz, A. Averbuch, Multiple-Model Algorithms for Single-Target Tracking and their Parallel Implementation, ICASSP91, 1991. 17. E. Palmon, A. Averbuch, Parallel Programming using crowds-The SPLASH Parallel language, PARCOM-90, India, 1990, in "Frontiers in Parallel Computing", V. Bhatker et. al (Editors), pp. 97-107, Narosa Publishing House. 18. D. Amitai, A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, S. Itzikowitz, First Order Hyperbolic PDEs Asynchronous Numerical Solution on Parallel Computers, PARCOM-90, India, 1990, in "Frontiers in Parallel Computing", V. Bhatker et. al (Editors), pp. 233-242, Narosa Publishing House. 19. A. Averbuch, S. Itzikowitz, H. Primak, E. Sammsonov, An efficient parallel algorithm for the solution of tridiagonal systems associated with the underwater acoustic parabolic equation, 3rd Int. Assoc. for Math. and Computers Simulation (IMACS), Harvard Univ., Computational Acoustics, Vol. 2, pp. 221-232, June 1991. 20. A. Averbuch, I. Gohberg, I. Koltracht, B. Shoham, Timing Analysis of a Parallel Algorithm for Toeplitz Matrices on a MIMD Parallel machine, 1991 International Conference on Parallel Processing, pp. III-312-313,August 12-16, 1991, USA. 21. A. Averbuch, E. Gabber, A. Yehudai, Experience with a Portable Parallelizing Pascal Compiler, 1991 International Conference on Parallel Processing, pp. II-207-II-210, August 12-16, 1991, USA. 22. A. Averbuch, E. Gabber, A. Yehudai, A Portable Parallelizing Pascal Compiler for Shared and Distributed Memory Multiprocessors, Supercomputing 1991, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Nov. 18-22, 1991. 23. A. Averbuch, N. Bshouty, M. Kaminsky, A classification of quadratic algorithms for multiplying polynomials of small degree over finite fields, 11 SCCC International 8 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. Coneference on Computer Science, October 14-18, Chile, 1991; in Computer Science: Reearch and Applications, Edited by R. Baeza-Yates and U. Manber, pp. 153-157, Plenum Press 1992. I. Sade, A. Averbuch, Image Encoding by Polynomial Approximation, IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC) 92, March 24-26, 1992, Snowbird, Utah, USA. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Parabolic domain decomposition techniques for parallel computation, International Conf. on Spectral and High Order Methods (ICOSAHO), Montpellier, France, June 22-26, 1992. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Domain Decomposition methods with local Fourier basis for parabolic problems, pp. 40-41, Domain Decomposition methods in Science and Engineering, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, June15-19, 1992. I. Sade, A. Averbuch, Bounds On Parallel Computation of Multivariate Polynomials, Theory of Computing and Systems, ISTCS-92,Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 601, pp. 147-153,Technion, Haifa, Israel, May 27-28, 1992. I. Sade, A. Averbuch, Parallel Computation of Polynomials, Conference on Information Science and Systems, Princeton University, March18-20, 1992, USA. D. Amitai, A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, S. Itzikowitz, Parallel Asynchronous High-Order Scheme for PDEs in a Bounded Domain, IMACS PDE-7, June 22-24, 1992, Rutgers, USA. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Domain Decomposition methods for parabolic problems, Joint US-Israel Workshop on Advanced Scientific Computing for the 90's, Sponsored by BSF (The Binational Science Foundation) and NSF, May 24-29, Jerusalem, Israel. A. Averbuch, D. Lazar, M. Israeli, Image Compression using Wavelet Transform and Multiresolution Decomposition, IEEE Data Compression Conference 1993 (DCC'93), March 30-April 2, pp. 459, 1993, USA. A. Averbuch, G. Aharoni, R. Coifman,M. Israeli, Local cosine transform - A method for the reduction of the Blocking Effect in JPEG, Conference on "Mathematical Imaging: Wavelet applications in Signal and Image processing",SPIE coneference, Vol. 2034, pp. 205-217, July 15-16, San Diego, California, 1993. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Multidomain Fourier Algorithms for Parallel Solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations, in "Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering" (Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Domain Decomposition, October 27-30, 1993, The Pennsylvania State University), D. E. Keyes \& J. Xu, eds., American Mathematical Society, Providence, 1995. A. Averbuch, G. Beylkin, R. Coifman, M. Israeli, Multiscale Inversion of Elliptic Operators, The Samuel Neaman Workshop on Signal and Image Representation in Combined Space, Technion, Haifa, Israel, May 8-11, 1994, Edited by Y. Zeevi, R. Coifman, Academic Prress, pp. 341-359, 1998. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Multidomain Fourier Algorithms for Fluid Dynamics Problems, Sixth International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics (ICCAM 94), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, July 25-30, 1994. A. Averbuch, R. Eisenberg, M. Israeli, Z. Schuss, Detecting ionic currents in single channels using wavelet analysis, Part I: zero mean Gaussian noise, Conference on "Mathematical Imaging: Wavelet applications in Signal and Image processing",SPIE coneference, July 27-29, San Diego, California, pp. 76-90, Vol. 2303, 1994. A. Averbuch, R. Eisenberg, M. Israeli, Z. Schuss, Detecting ionic currents in single channels using wavelet analysis, The 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Jerusalem, Israel, Oct 9-13, 1994. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Parallel Implementation of Non-Linear Evolution Problems using Parabolic Domain Decomposition, Seventh SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, San Francisco, CA Feb. 15-17, pp.379384, 1995. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Parallel Spectral Fourier Algorithm for Fluid Dynamics Problems, ICFD Conf. on Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics, April 36, Institute for Computational Fluid Dynamics, Oxford University Computing Lab, 1995 A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Parallelization of High Order Schemes in Large Scale Scientific Computing, Parallel CFD 95, California Institute of Technology, Ca, June 26-28, 1995. 9 41. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Parallel Spectral Fourier Algorithm for Fluid Dynamics Problems, International Coneference on Spectral and High Order Methods (ICOSAHOM 95), June 5-9, Houston, pp. 605-612, Texas, 1995. 42. A. Averbuch, K. Ruvinsky, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Parallel Implementation of Multidomain Fourier Algorithms for 2D and 3D Navier-Stokes Equations, "Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering", the Eight International Conference on Domain Decomposition, May 16-20, 1995, Beijing, China, pp. 433442. 43. A. Averbuch, B. Bobrovsky, V. Sheinin, Speech Compression using Wavelet Packet and Vector Quantizer, Conference on “Wavelet applications in Signal and Image processing III",SPIE conference, Vol.2569, July 9-14, San Diego, California, 1995. 44. A. Averbuch, G. Beylkin, R. Coifman, M. Israeli, Multiresolution Solution of Elliptic and Parabolic PDEs, Wavelet workshop, Canbra, Australia, June 26-30, 1995. 45. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, International Conference on Inertial Manifold and Related Algorithm, Xian, China, June 1995. 46. M. Israeli, E. Braverman, A. Averbuch L. Vozovoi, Parallel Solution of Partial Differential Equations with Fourier-Spectral and Wavelet Algorithms, Invited Lecture, VII-th Int. Colloquium on Differential Equations,Vol I, pp. 71-78, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, August 18-23, 1996. 47. A. Averbuch, E. Braverman, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, A Fast Elliptic Solver of Arbitrary Order Accuracy by a Modified Fourier Method, Numerical Methods and Computational Mechanics in Science and Engineering, The University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary, 15-19th July 1996, The University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary. 48. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Ioffe, L. Vozovoi, Parallel Simulation of Turblence, 36TH Isarel Coference on Aerospace Sciences, Feb. 21-22, 1996. 49. A. Averbuch, R. Dekel, E. Gabber, Portable Parallelizing Fortran Compiler, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'96), Vol. III, pp. 1236-1247, August 9-11, Sunnyvale, California, 1996. 50. A. Averbuch, L. Ioffe, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Highly Scalable 2-D and 3-D NavierStokes Parallel Solver on MIMD Multiprocessors, Eighth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, March 14-17, 1997, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. 51. D. Amitai, A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, Asynchronous parallel Solvers for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws, Eighth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, March 14-17, 1997, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. 52. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, Sparse Solution of elliptic problems, Mulitiscale Phenomena, Modeling and Computation, Research Workshop of the Israeli Science Foundation and Weizmann Institute, March 2-7, Eilat, Israel. 53. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, Image compression using wavelets, Mulitiscale Phenomena, Modeling and Computation, Research Workshop of the Israeli Science Foundation and Weizmann Institute, March 2-7, Eilat, Israel. 54. A. Averbuch, E. Braverman, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, A Fast 3-D Solver of Arbitrary Order Accuracy, SIAM Annual Meeting, July 14-18, 1997, Stanford University, USA. 55. D. Amitai, A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, S. Itzikowitz, Implicit-Explicit Parallel Asynchronous Solver of Parabolic PDEs, SIAM Annual Meeting, July 14-18, 1997, Stanford University, USA. 56. A. Averbuch, E. Braverman, M. Israeli, Parallel Solution of Partial Differential Equations with Multiwavelets, SIAM Annual Meeting, July 14-18, 1997, Stanford University, USA. 57. A. Averbuch, L. Ioffe, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, 2-D Parallel Solver for the Solution of Navier-Stokes Equations with Constant and Variable Coefficients using ADI on Cells, SIAM Annual Meeting, July 14-18, 1997, Stanford University, USA. 58. A. Averbuch, G. Beylkin, R. Coifman, P. Fischer, M. Israeli, A wavelets based constrained Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient for elliptic problems, Conference on Preconditioned Iterative Solution Methods for Large Scale Problems in Scientific Computations, May 27-29, 1997 University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 59. A. Averbuch, E. Braverman, M. Israeli, A Fast 3-D Laplace Solver of Arbitrary Order Accuracy Based on Fourier Series, Internal Conference Functional Differential Difference Equations and Applications, August 18-22, Turkey, 1997. 10 60. A. Averbuch, R. Coifman, F. Meyer, Motion compensation of wavelet coefficients for very low bit rate video coding, IEEE 1997 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP97), October 26-29, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 1997. 61. A. Averbuch, R. Coifman, F. Meyer, J.O. Stromberg, Fast Wavelet Packet Image Compression, Data Compression Conference - DCC98, Snowbird, Utah, March 29April, 1998. 62. A. Averbuch, R. Coifman, F. Meyer, J.O. Stromberg, Multi-layered Image Compression, Wavelet Applications in Signal and Imaging Processing, VI, SPIE, 1998. 63. . Averbuch, M. Israeli, F. Meyer, Speed vs. Quality in Low Bit-Rate Still Image Compression, International Wavelet Conference IWC-Tanger98, Tanger 13-15 April, 1998. 64. A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Solution of Time Dependent Differential Equations with Variable Coefficients using Multidomain Legendre Method, ICOSAHOM98, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 22-26, 1998. 65. A. Averbuch, E. Braverman, M. Israeli, L. Vozovoi, Fast 3-D Spectral Elliptic Solver of Arbitrary Order Accuracy Using Fourier Series, ICOSAHOM98, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 22-26, 1998. 66. A. Averbuch, R. Coifman, F. Meyer, J.O. Stromberg, Multi-layered Image Representation: Application in Image Compression, IEEE 1998 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP98), Chicago, October 1998. 67. A. Averbuch, E. Braverman, M. Israeli, A Fast 3-D Solver for the Helmholtz Equation, SIAM 1998 Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, July 13-17, 1998. 68. A. Averbuch, E. Braverman, M. Israeli, Adaptive Solution of Elliptic Equations with Wavelets, SIAM 1998 Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, July 13-17, 1998. 69. A. Averbuch, B. Epstein, I. Yavneh, An Accurate ENO Driven Multigrid Method Applied to 3-D Turbulent Transonic Flows, The AIAA 14th Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Norfolk, Virginia, June 1999. 70. A. Averbuch, V. Zheludev, On classification and recognition of acoustic signals by wavelet methods, The Fourth International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, ICIAM 99, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 5-9, 1999. 71. A. Averbuch, V. Zheludev, Wavelet based acoustic classification of moving objects, The 3rd European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications (ENUMATH 99), in Jyvaskyla, Finland, July 26-30 1999. 72. A. Averbuch, V. Zheludev, A Biorthogonal Wavelet Scheme Based on Interpolatory Splines, Saint-Petersburg State Technical University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, June 14-19, 1999. 73. A. Averbuch, M. Khenner, M. Israeli, M. Nathan, Numerical study of Electric Field and Curvature gradients Induced surface/GB diffusion, Center for Nonlinear Analysis, Carnegie Mellon, USA, ``Meeting on Large-Scale Computations in the Simulation of Materials", March 30-April 1, 2000. 74. A. Averbuch, V. Zheludev, Interpolatory biorthogonal multiwavelet transforms based on Hermite splines, Proc. of the Conf. Trends in Approximation Theory-2000. 75. A. Averbuch, V. Zheludev, I. Kozlov, A wavelet based algorithm of acoustic detection of moving ground and airborne targets, SPIE 2000, Conference on Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing VIII, Vol. 4119, pp. 959-970, 30.74.8.2000, San Diego, California, USA. 76. A. Averbuch, V. Zheludev, A lifting scheme of biorthogonal wavelet transform based on discrete interpolatory splines, SPIE 2000, Conference on Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing VIII, Vol. 4119, pp. 564-575, 30.7-4.8.2000, San Diego, California, USA. 77. L. Braverman, A. Averbuch, R. Coifman, M. Israeli, A. Sidi, Computation of Oscillatory Integrals via Multiscale Local Fourier Bases, The Third World Congress of Nonlinear Analysis, Catania, Sicily, Italy, 19.7-26.7.2000. 78. D. Lazar, A. Averbuch, Wavelet video compression using region based motion estimation and compensation, ICASSP2001, May 7-11, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. 79. V. Zheludev, A. Averbuch, A. Pevnyi, Biorthogonal butterworth wavelets, ICASSP2001, May 7-11, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. 80. A. Averbuch, V. Zheludev, A New Collection of Biorthogonal Wavelets for Image Processing, (ENUMATH 2001), in Jyvaskyla, Finland, 2001. 11 81. A. Averbuch, V. Zheludev, A library of biorthogonal wavelet transforms originated from polynomial splines, SPIE 2001, Conference on Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing, Wavelets IX, Vol. 4478, pp. 323-334, 29.7-3.8.2000, San Diego, California, USA. 82. A. Averbuch, I. Kozlov, V. Zheludev, Wavelet packet based algorithm for identification of quasi-periodic signals, SPIE 2001, Conference on Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing, Wavelets IX, Vol. 4478, pp. 353-360, 29.7-3.8.2000, San Diego, California, USA. 83. A. Averbuch, F. Meyer, J-O. Stromberg, R.Coifman, A. Vassiliou, Low bit-rate compression for seismic data, SPIE 2001, Conference on Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing, Wavelets IX, Vol. 4478, pp. 271-281, 29.7-3.8.2000, San Diego, California, USA. 84. L. Beliak, A. Averbuch, M. Israeli, Adaptive Calculation of Variable Coefficient Elliptic Differential Equations via Wavelets, International Conference of Computational Harmonic Analysis, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 4-8, 2001. 85. A. Averbuch, V. Zheludev, Multiwavelet transforms using Hermite splines, International Conference of Computational Harmonic Analysis, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 4-8, 2001. 86. A. Averbuch, V. Zheludev, On Image Compression by Biorthogonal Wavelet Transforms Based on Discrete Splines, International Conference of Computational Harmonic Analysis, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 4-8, 2001. 87. A. Averbuch, L. Braverman, R. Coifman, M. Israeli, Fast Evaluation of Multidimensional Oscillatory, International Conference of Computational Harmonic Analysis, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 4-8, 2001. 88. A. Averbuch, L. Braverman, M. Israeli, A new low communication parallel algorithm for elliptic PDEs, Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics, Trends and Applications, Parallel CFD 2000, pp. 275-282, Trondheim, Norway, May 22-25, 2001. 89. M. Israeli, L. Braverman, A. Averbuch, A Hierarchical domain decomposition method with adaptive domain matching, Tenth Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods, Copper Mountain, Colorado, April 1-6, pp. 10-12, 2001. 90. M. Israeli, L. Braverman, A. Averbuch, A Hierarchical Domain Decomposition Method with Low Communication Overhead, 13th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods, Champfleuri -Centre de Reunions, Lyons University, October 9-12, 2000. 91. A. Averbuch, Y. Tsaig, Automatic Segmentation of Moving Objects in Video Sequences: A Region Labeling Approach, MPEG4 Conference, April 23, 2002, Paris (postponed from 6-9/11/2001). 92. A. Averbuch, Y. Tsaig, A Region-based MRF Model for Unspervised Segmentation of Moving Objects in Image Sequences, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2001), Kauai Marriot, Hawaii, 11-13.12, 2001. 93. M. Israeli, E. Braverman, A. Averbuch, A hierarchical domain decomposition method with low communication overhead, Domain Decomposition 13, 2001, (8 pages). 94. M. Israeli, E. Braverman, A. Averbuch, A hierarchical 3-D Poisson modified Fourier solver by domain decomposition, ICOSAHOM-01, 2001, (10 pages). 95. A. Averbuch, V. Zheludev, Splines: a new con contribution to wavelet analysis, “Algorithms for Approximation IV”, England 2002, (8 pages). 96. A. Averbuch, Y. Keller, FFT based image registration, ICASSP 2002, Orlando, Florida, May 13-17, 2002, (4 pages). 97. A. Averbuch, Y. Keller, Fast Motion Estimation using Bidirectional Gradient Methods, ICASSP 2002, Orlando, Florida, May 13-17, 2002. 98. A. Averbuch, D. Donoho, A. Schclar, Deblocking of block-DCT compressed images using deblocking frames of variable size, ICASSP 2002, Orlando, Florida, May 1317, 2002 (4 pages). 99. A. Averbuch, Y. Keller, Image Registration Using Parametric surfaces and Pixel Diffusion, International Conference on Curves and Surfaces, Saint-Malo France, 2002. 100. A. Averbuch, Y. Keller, Fast gradient methods based global motion estimation for video compression, International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2002), Rochester, USA, Sept. 2002. 12 101. A. Averbuch, D. Lazar, Wavelet Video Compression based on Segments Motion Detection and Estimation, International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (SIP 2002), August 12-14, 2002, Kauai, USA. 102. A. Averbuch, Y. Keller, Robust Multi-Sensor Image Registration Using Pixel Migration, IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop. 103. M. Israeli, E. Braverman, A. Averbuch, Hierarchical 3-D Poisson modified Fourier solver by domain decomposition, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods (ICOSAHOM-01) (Uppsala). J. Sci. Comput. 17 (2002), no. 1-4, 471--479. 13